Senior Android Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom
Process
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HR Introduction Call: Basic information exchange about the company and role. <> Me
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Competency Interview: To check leadership, organization, Agile, influence, and teamwork skills.
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Tech Pairing: Work on user stories using a HackerRank challenge to check how you work in a real-time environment, your approach to tackling a statement, and how much time you spend.
Questions
You will download a legacy project and work on improvements and pending tasks. It's a mixture of Java and Kotlin, with many // TODO comments. You will be judged based on how many edge cases, error handling, and improvements you make in 60 minutes. With 10+ tasks, usually only a few are possible to approach. Although doing a live exercise isn't easy, the goal is to cover as many cases as possible with a working solution.
The essential points for booking are:
- TDD
- Refactoring
- Clarify requirements
- Scalability
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Booking.com Work Experiences
- 4.0Nice, stable companySenior Android Engineer • Current EmployeeAmsterdam, NetherlandsJuly 27, 2024Pros: People are very nice, with excellent communication skills. They have a huge customer base.Cons: As with large corporates, work processes can be very slow sometimes.
- 5.0Good company to work forSenior Android Engineer • Current EmployeeAmsterdam, NetherlandsMarch 15, 2023Pros: Clear strategy and tech objectives. The community is constantly working to remove blockers and improve the developer experience, and to adopt new technologies. Good benefits and compensation. Still not FAANG, but it provides almost everything that is expected from a big company.Cons: As with any other big company, communication and collaboration are constant issues, as teams are vertically structured. Career progression is slower compared to smaller companies; usually, you have to outperform to grow.
- 3.0Relaxed, But Messy CodebaseSenior Android Engineer • Current EmployeeAmsterdam, NetherlandsFebruary 15, 2023Pros: Relaxed environment. No deadline pressure.Cons: The codebase is a mess. A free-for-all approach causes unmaintainable code.
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